﻿This file 2025_01_ReadMe_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT2.txt was generated on 2025-04-03 by Jana Dambrogio.


GENERAL INFORMATION


1. Title of Dataset:
"2025_01_ReadMe_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT2.txt”, Harvard Dataverse.


2. Caption: A four-page booklet made from a single sheet of paper. 


3. Alt text: 
Side A: A sheet divided into four equal panels. Top left panel contains MIT Libraries’ Logo and the title of the upcoming exhibition, “Refracted Histories through Stained Glass: 19th c. Islamic Windows as a Prism into MITs Past, Present, and Future.” Top right panel has a black text describing the exhibition. Bottom left panel has a photographic image of a multi-colored glass window of a peacock. Bottom right panel contains introductory text about the exhibition, the window, and the MIT Distinctive Collections. The sheet folds down along two creases (magenta creases for mountain folds and blue creases for valley creases) into four leaves of a booklet. 


Side B: The flat sheet contains a large black and white illustration of the peacock window for coloring.  


4. Author Information
  A. Principal Investigators Contact Information
        Name: Department of Distinctive Collections: Wunsch Conservation Laboratory staff, Aga Khan Documentation Center staff; Rotch Architecture and Planning Librarian. 
        Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        Email: conservationlab@mit.edu  
        
5. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date):
2025-04-03.


6. Geographic location of data collection:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.


7. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technologies Libraries.




SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION


1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
Copyright © 2025-1-April MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted.


2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:
N/A.


3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:
N/A.


4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets:
N/A.


5. Was data derived from another source?
No.


6.   Recommended citation for this dataset:Illustrations created by Kai Alexis Smith, Rami Alafandi, Gwendolyn Collaço, Jana Dambrogio, Matt Saba, and Ariana Rutledge,"MIT Libraries' Coloring Books", https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/coloringbooks/, Harvard Dataverse.


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW


1. File/Dataset List:
1. Dataverse: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/coloringbooks 
*File. 2025_00_ReadMe_MIT_Libraries_coloring_books2.txt.


Sub-dataverse: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/peacock 
Dataset for .PNGs, .PDF, and .txt documents: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IIMCK0
* File. 2025_01_ReadMe_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT.txt. 
* File. 2025_01_ReadMe_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT2.txt.(this document)
* File. 2025_01_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT_01.PNG
* File. 2025_01_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT_02.PNG
* File. 2025_01_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT.PDF
* File. 2025_01_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT_high_res.PDF
* File. 2025_01_Peacock_4_page_coloring_book_from_1_sheet_MIT2.pdf


2. Relationship between files, if important:
Each coloring booklet can be found in a dataset that contains the following files:
* PNG files
* accessible PDF file contains captions for the coloring booklet
* A readme file (s).


3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package:


4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset?
No.


METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION


1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data:
 MIT Libraries’ presents a growing collection of freely available and downloadable coloring books. These coloring books were developed and designed as an accessible method to share items in the MIT Libraries collections. Each coloring book is available as PNGs and accessible-PDF files.
2. Methods for processing the data:
N/A.


3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
N/A.


4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:
N/A.


5. Environmental/experimental conditions:
N/A.


6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
* The team used Adobe Acrobat Accessibility and “Use guided actions” (formerly action wizard), tools to pass a series of tests to verify that the PDF documents pass as accessible PDFs 
* The team met with MITs Accessibility Office to review a selection of our files and check the accessibility of the documentation. 


7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:
Illustrations created by Kai Alexis Smith, 
Content created by: Rami Alafandi and Gwendolyn Collaço.
ReadME files edited by Jana Dambrogio and Ariana Rutledge.
Contributors include: Matt Saba; and the Wunsch Conservation Lab Staff, MIT Libraries.


8. STYLE GUIDE – TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Vision-accessible color values
* EC008C – magenta
* 00AEEF – blue


9. Acknowledgments
Thank you to the Accessibility office at MIT, especially Kate Quinn, Mary Ziegler, Joannie Bottkol, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Vitrocentre (Switzerland), and Harvard Dataverse Staff.